Armor Deterioration Changes

[Dunn]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

And I am back from my vacation. I didn't think that it would be warmer here than in real life, but I am ready.

In the future MA will convey more information about changes and upgrades before hand and have discussions about it. I will also make sure that the MA mission statement/vision will be made available in the next couple of weeks, to present how and why MA do things and what we intend to create, long-term.

Can I please have a hug before I get flamed? ,-)

If its lag your worried about, then why dont you just increase the delay of changing armors. Theres no need for the fee, wouldt you agree to that our armors decay enough as it is from normal use???

Start with this, and before we know it theres a 5pec decay when equiping FAPs so you can reduse the lag fapping cases???

I dont think you can expect to get many hugs from anyone that plays EU atm, however I'm willing to give you one once the armor fee is removed

[Doer]

Marco, there is (understandably) a lot of talk about armor decay increasing with the addition of foot guards. Would you please clarify whether the guards will
1- take some of the hits that formerly went to e.g. the gloves
or
2- take hits in cases where a mob would have missed before

Also, has any consideration been given to splitting of gloves in people's inventory into foot guard+gloves (if the hits going to gloves will be split between gloves and foot guards)? This would resolve a lot of the angst.

[buckaroobanzai]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

I am still gathering info about the foot guards and before I know more I will refrain from comments. I hope to comment tomorrow. I hope you understand.

But then let me ask you a small additional question:

Wasn't the foot guard change extensively discussed with the Community Director before being included in the release?

No need to answer this one in fact, you already did.

Take care and good luck,
BBB

[Mega]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

More info will come as to the PoE armor in the near future.

Is it egg related?

[UnaAlconbury]

As somebody already stated, Marco, why not increase this new armor changing delay and remove the fee entirely?

[Yirrk]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

More info will come as to the PoE armor in the near future.

So... what about the footguard situation for THE REST OF US? Never mind the four sets or whatever of specialty armor - there are 1Ks and 1Ks or incomplete everyday armours out there now because of this harebrained footguard thing.

Either supply a footguard to each holder of a shin, or make the shin and footguard ONE PIECE.

Why should everyone now have INCOMPLETE armor and have to pay resellers an outrageous sum for Footguards?

[Kirov]

Originally Posted by UnaAlconbury

As somebody already stated, Marco, why not increase this new armor changing delay and remove the fee entirely?

Because then they wouldn't be making the thousands of extra dollars that they are making off the new tax.

[Wiseman]

Nice post this one!

+ rep to Community! The effort paid of a little atleast!
+ rep to Marco beeing active and collecting feedback, and for
some info in the first post that seems promissing.

Not at all perfect this, but atleast better.
Nice to see the effort of the community paid off. Even if MA would
have counted with the reaction this got, and counted in that they
could take "half the fee" back, I doubt they would have done it without
the strong reaction from the community . So good work to them who
did it right & constructive! Well done

Still more to fix, keep on nagging!

[Metatron]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

I am still gathering info about the foot guards and before I know more I will refrain from comments. I hope to comment tomorrow. I hope you understand.

Thank you for at least letting us know that you realize there is a major problem with the foot guards issue...I think this will help a lot of people calm down and be patient, especially since the problem wouldn't affect us until the next VU anyway. We definitely understand that MA employees are only human, just like us, and won't get everything perfect on the first try. You just have to let us know you are listening, and we will be patient.

About the foot guards...There seem to be only two logical options from what many players have discussed:

1. Give them out to people
2. Change the shins and foot guards into one part

If the seventh part is absolutely necessary, option 1 must be followed in one way or another. If you consider trying to drop or craft foot guards for high end and rare armor sets, you will realize that there is no good way of doing this. Even if many foot guards are dropped, there is no guarantee that they will end up with their respective sets. PoE armor wasn't dropped, so you would either have to put these in loots (again, won't reach the sets) or give them out. If you give them out to PoE set holders, it won't be fair to people with other sets. Therefore, please follow through with one of the two options listed above. Thank you for reading this.

[Yirrk]

Originally Posted by phstuckey

LOL

is everyone seriously happy about it being changed to only 1pec???

Ummm.. not where I am.